Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1899 — El Heraldo Habanero. [ARTICLE]

El Heraldo Habanero.

Wilber Tharp, of the I6lst regiment, sends us a copy of The Havana Herald, the Spanish form of which is El Heraldo Hahanero, of Sunday January Bth. It is a new venture in Havana and this is only the sth number. It is a four page paper, somewhat larger than four pages of The Republican. It is published every morniug except Monday, and the price is five cents per copy. It is partly in English and partly in Spanish. The “Redactor Responeable” is J. H. Hollander. The Havana Herald Co. the “Proprietaries.-' That the people of Havana are in a fair way to absorb the most elevating elements of American civilization is shown by the fact, reported at length in the paper, that a game of base ball was played on Friday, Jan. 6th. On one side was a Cuban nine, the Habanistas, and on the other a volunteer nine, from the 161st Indiana regiment. And what is more the Cubans gave the Hoosiers a terrible drubling; tha score being 17 to 3 in the Cubans favor. The umpire for the Indiana boys was noue other than Chaplain Beiderwolf, and it is reasonable to conclude that the usual custom of the losing club of cussing the umpire was dispensed with in this case. If the disposition to indulge in that amusement was not restrained by respect for “. the cloth” it would be by the chaplain’s well established reputation for athletic ability.